Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

We all live downstream

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

Even meeting Kyoto targets barely makes a dent in what we have to achieve.

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.